10 Ways to Leverage Small Business Month to Springboard Your Marketing
By James Monroe—By now you’ve most likely heard that May is Small Business Month. Yes, it seems like there’s a month for everything, but Small Business Month offers real...
12 Text Templates Every Small Business Needs
By Rieva Lesonsky—What Are Text Templates? Text templates are preset messages you can set up for your business to make communications with customers easier. Once you set up text...
Texting for Your Small Business: Four Tips to Do It Like a Pro
By Rieva Lesonsky— Ready to step up your customer communications with texting? Texting, or SMS (short message service) has emerged as a convenient, effective, and efficient way for businesses...
Top 8 Tax Deductions for Small Businesses and Consultants
By Steve Strauss—One of the great things about owning an independent small business is that you can deduct a lot of things that were not deductible when you were...
Small Business Tax Records: What You Need to Keep
By Rieva Lesonsky— Taxes done? Ready for some spring cleaning of all that financial paperwork? So how long do you need to keep tax records for a small business?...
3 Ways You Can Delight Customers and Fuel Referrals
By James Monroe—What’s the cheapest, most effective way to get new customers for your small business? Buy advertising? Redo your website? Put your phone number on all your vehicles?...
The ABCs of LLCs: How to Structure Your Small Business for Success
Q&A with CPA Kyle Pearson—The small business landscape is changing, with a growing number of entrepreneurs leaving the corporate world to start fresh and go it alone. If this...
Small Business Growing Pains: Communication Is Key For Keeping Customers Happy
By James Monroe— What happens when your small business grows and you can’t handle every customer personally? As a small business owner, you are closer to your customer than...
Your Microbusiness Is No Ordinary “Small Business”
By Steve Strauss—Like many of you, I bet, I grew up in a small business household. My dad and his partner started with a single, small carpet store in...
Time Management for Small Business: Part 2
By Rieva Lesonsky— How do small businesses like yours get it all done? One way is to regularly reflect on where you can save time. The small business time-management...
